Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure Chosen & introduced by the playwright J B Priestley these thirteen marvellous sketches are accompanied by George Cruikshank's evocative illustrations Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life From the colourful chaos of dances & gin-shops to the sparse destitution of the pawnshop & the penitentiary he captured the grime & the glory of the English capital with singular brilliance Orphans & beggars lord mayors & murderers actors criminals cab drivers & prostitutes; all rub shoulders in this wonderful selection from Sketches by Boz